Sunni Cleric Killed in Iraq

http://www.aina.org/news/20050318100533.htm

Baghdad -- Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Sunni cleric in the eastern part of the city, Xinhua reported.

"Three unknown gunmen stepped out of their car and shot down Shiekh Abdul Rahim al-Samarraie, Imam of the Sunni Asmaa Thaat al-Nitaqain mosque," a police source said Friday.

The attack took place late Thursday in Baghdad's eastern neighbourhood after the sunset prayer when al-Samarraie was walking with his wife outside the mosque, added the source.

Many Sunni clerics in eastern Baghdad have received death threats, relatives of the assassinated Imam said.

Insurgents have targeted a number of Muslim clerics, both Shias and Sunnis, since the US-led invasion in March 2003, in an attempt to trigger strife between Iraq's two largest sects.

to lose the afterglow of the "election"

If I remember correctly, wasn't Iraq "free" as of June 30, 2004? Don't hear a lot about Mission Accomplished, Part Deux anymore

Afterglow (Title changed from Resplandor)

Siempre es conmovedor el ocaso
por indigente o charro que sea,
pero más conmovedor todavía
es aquel brillo desesperado y final
que herrumbra la llanura
cuando el sol último se ha hundido.
Nos duele sostener esa luz tirante y distinta,
esa alucinación que impone al espacio
el unánime miedo a la sombra
y que cesa de golpe
cuando notamos su falsía,
como cesan los sueños
cuando sabemos que soñamos.

-- By Jorge Luis Borges, 1923

Basically, the afterglow is just a hallucination.

Sue

Would be my guess. How long before this explodes?

I shed no tears for any of them.

That must have taken a few days at least.

ONE who wants equal rights for women
ONE who says women get to decide who they marry
ONE who lets women wear whatever the hell they want

Knock yourself out.

That's how it works.

Stabilizing their country, restoring public services, fresh water, food, healthcare--all on the back burner until they take care of this "woman" thing :eyes:

living in virtual slavery - me I gotta speak out. The clerics can bite me.

in 1830 who is pro-civil rights. Stating that that's "all they want to do" is, WADR, naive and ethnocentric

it is not ethnocentric. I'm not even speaking of ALL Muslim men. The conditions women live under in ANY theocracy is unacceptable. It's like saying Osama was okay because he also built hospitals (that women couldn't go to) and schools (that women couldn't attend). As long as they want to oppress women, I have no use for them.

If the Shi'ah get mad and start some kind of private counter-insurgency, the last place we want to be is there.